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Digital Business Automation Ideas


This is an IBM Automation portal for Digital Business Automation products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Please use the following category to raise ideas for these offerings for all environments (traditional on premises, containers, on cloud):
  • Cloud Pak for Business Automation - including Business Automation Studio and App Designer, Business Automation Insights

  • Business Automation Workflow (BAW) - including BAW, Business Process Manager, Workstream Services, Business Performance Center, Advanced Case Management

  • Content Services - FileNet Content Manager

  • Content Services - Content Manager OnDemand

  • Content Services - Daeja Virtual Viewer

  • Content Services - Navigator

  • Content Services - Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files

  • Content Services - Content Collector for SAP

  • Content Services - Enterprise Records

  • Content Services - Content Manager (CM8)

  • Datacap

  • Automation Document Processing

  • Automation Decision Services (ADS)

  • Operational Decision Manager

  • Robotic Process Automation

  • Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

  • Blueworks Live

  • Business Automation Manager Open Edition

  • IBM Process Mining


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.


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Pinned ideas

PINNED Filter UI enables having OR between filters (not just AND)
Users want to filter cases for client1 OR client2. They can't without creating a custom filter with javascript -- which they don't like at all
PINNED SQL statements in Dashboard Widgets
I think using SQL statements in widgets would be great to leverage the entire potential of the data uploaded to IBM Process Mining. Lots of important and helpful information cannot be displayed today as it's only SQL-like. I don't think that using...

All ideas

CP4BA Case client not responsive in mobile browsers

On CP4BA 21.0.3,the case client is not responsive in mobile browsers.The project is developed for thousands of pepople in the company. The CU is clamoring for the mobile browser support for CP4BA Case Client.Please share the schedule to implement ...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide option to have a Visual indicator - for attachments and or polices links

Whenever, there are processes linked, we can see the link symbol on the activity box.However, when we have attachments or when we have linked policies or decisions, there is not Visual indicator on the activity box. Whenever there are attachments ...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Human-in-the-loop Command improvement

Functionality that would be helpful is if our human in the loop commands had these additional functionality. Multiple Select Options - Have the ability to have customizable Buttons and dropdowns by feeding in a list Allow for message box command t...
almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

IBM RPA - Web Recorder - Not able to download the extension file

We request that the Web Recorder.CRX file be added to the IBM Passport Advantage portal or included with the IBM RPA client installer. Currently, the Web Recorder extension is only available for installation via the Google Chrome Web Store. Howeve...
6 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Using outdated JavaScript libraries

The application uses outdated JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities: AngularJS v1.8.4 CVE-2022-25844: Angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) CVE-2025-2336: AngularJS Incomplete Filtering of Special El...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Excessive information disclosure by the IBM BAW diagnostic endpoint

It is recommended to restrict access to the /sync/api/configurations/ping endpoint to trusted IP addresses or administrative accounts only, or to disable it entirely in production environments if it is not operationally required.
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Dangerous CSP policy in the application

We recommend using nonce ( https://content-security-policy.com/nonce/ ) or hash ( https://content-security-policy.com/hash/ ) mechanisms for scripts loaded by the application.
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Application is vulnerable to cross site scripting (XSS)

While we are creating group on BPM process admin URL at that time it is taking special characters as input. we want to block those special character like {}[]()!@#$%^&* Risk : cross-site scripting (xss) attacks are a type of injection, in whic...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to Retrieve Combined PDF documents when multiple documents are sent for signature via the DocuSign plugin

Current Limitation: The plugin does not currently retrieve combined PDFs when multiple documents are sent for signature. Desired Behavior: The plugin should be able to retrieve combined PDFs that include the original documents, signed documents, a...
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

BAI instalation on a Local Red Hat OpenShift

BAI to installed on a local Red Hat OpenShift, on a RedHat 9 single machine. refer to SNO (Single Node Openshift and not using pull Open shift deployment, Small profile hardware requirements and Just Flink needs 2 replicas
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Planned for future release